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Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

in News on March 19 at 8:29 pm PT

Raghu Ramakrishnan has left the purple building.
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Google Social Researcher Jumps Ship for Facebook

in Social on December 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm PT

Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google who was the company’s research lead for social, announced today he will be joining Facebook next year.

FTC Gives Ed Felten Freedom to Tinker

in News on November 4, 2010 at 11:55 am PT

Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it’s hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment.

No Way. Cows Automatically Point North? I Call Bullsh …

in News on August 27, 2008 at 3:19 pm PT

Holy cow. … Cattle grazing or at rest tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction–just like a compass needle. This according to European researchers who scrutinized Google Earth photographs of 8,510 cattle in 308 herds around the world.